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  1. Javelineer

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    Well, yes, but perhaps not for the reason you think...:oops:

    Killing a tenth of them would leave 90% of them alive.

    Killing a tenth of them and then another tenth (if that's what you're going for; hard to know for sure from the quote) would leave 81%
     
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    Even in a historical setting, a ninja probably had one of the most "job-like" occupations as modern people could understand the term. You weren't born into it, you freely chose it, you performed a service and received a payment for a pre-set period of time.

    A kid who wants to be a samurai when he grows up, on the other hand, is just being facile.
     
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    Artists frequently use coconut oil in pour paintings to produce effects which they call "cells."
     
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    a "resurrectionist" is just a fancy term for grave robber
     
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    every day saying often have a real history...pulling my leg...comes from when prisoners were hanged in public and after they fell through the trap the relatives would pull on their legs for a quicker death
     
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    The most common street name in the UK is High Street.

    The most common street name in the US is Second (or 2nd) Street.
     
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    That means there are at least a few towns with a Second Street but no First Street. Whack.
     
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    What would normally be called First Street is often called Main, Center, or something similar which cuts down considerably on the existence of First Streets.
     
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    There are exactly 49 roundabouts in my post-war built town. :supermad:
     
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    Too many or too few?
     
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    Too few! The world shall be nothing but roundabouts upon roundabouts!

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    Little know fact: had my daughter not been in the car to tell me what to do, I'd still be circling on the roundabout between the airport and Inverness, Scotland, three years after I entered the damn thing.
     
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    Roundabouts give me terrible anxiety and I still don't really know how they work. I think we have about two within a 300 mile radius.
     
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    They're really pretty intuitive, just floor it.

     
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    "Houston, we have lift-off." :p
     
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    good grief. A little too much vodka I guess.
     
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    Never have I ever been to a place with roundabouts, and thought to myself, 'you know what this place really needs? MOrE ROundABOUtS!!!,'
     
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    In a town like this, you get plenty of practice.
     
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    Point of order: this is actually a pinball machine.
     
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    I always thought regular intersections worked fine.
     
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    In a metro area with 250K population, we have exactly three roundabouts, all in the middle of nowhere with little traffic. I understand that if a city wants to rebuild an intersection, the federal government will only help with the funding if it's reconfigured as a roundabout.
     
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    We call them "rotaries" in RI. I heard somewhere that we were one of only a few states that didn't call them roundabouts. I have no idea if that's true.

    (similar to us calling sandwiches "grinders")
     
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